Looking back at it now... it actually was really simple. At the time it seemed like I was trying to build a warp drive with a cardboard tube and a microwave. Now though... well, let's hurridly move on.

Why... does everyone do that? Smile and say "It looks like it's just some basic electronics, it should be easy", all while backing away and from around the nearest doorway...

But yes, it is relatively simple, I'm just not particularly well accquainted with electronics, basic or otherwise. I think the last time electronics and I met was making an LED light up in school, about a decade and a bit ago. .

...Especially trying to follow instructions which are both in Japanese, and tend to show parts in one position on one diagram, and then reversed on another.

I've stuff on SRW... I really wish someone would translate them into English. They're one of the few games on my non-translated list of games I really want to play.

But yes... Macross, mmmm. I keep intending to buy the Protoculture collection, but it goes out of stock before I can grab it, or becomes really expensive.

That she did. Sorry if any of this is incorrect- I'm going off memory here. I believe she sunk the HMS Hood and damaged another vessel, which made the Royal Navy basically hunt her down. Not sure how many of ours she took out in total, but I know that she was sunk a day or two after the battle which claimed the Hood by a couple of British warships.